Alternative forms

• -re (used after vowels)
• -e (used after r)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te/Category:Ainu terms with IPA pronunciation#TE

Suffix

-teCategory:Ainu lemmas#TECategory:Ainu suffixes#TECategory:Ainu entries with incorrect language header#TECategory:Pages with entries#TECategory:Pages with 16 entries#TE

1. (causative) used after consonants other than r form of -re (“to make happen”)

   ‎ek (“to come”) + ‎-te → ‎ekte (“to make come; to send (a person)”)

   ‎oman (“to go”) + ‎-te → ‎omante (“to make go; to send (something)”)

   ‎cis (“to cry”) + ‎-te → ‎ciste (“to make cry”)

See also

• -yar (indefinite causative)^[1]

References

Suffix

-teCategory:Chuukese lemmas#TECategory:Chuukese suffixes#TECategory:Chuukese entries with incorrect language header#TECategory:Pages with entries#TECategory:Pages with 16 entries#TE

1. (auxiliaryCategory:Chuukese auxiliary verbs#TE) Used to express negative tense in the determinate; never

Etymology 1

From Middle DutchCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch#TECategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch#TE -ede, from Old DutchCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch#TECategory:Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch#TE -itha, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#TECategory:Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#TE *-iþu, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#TECategory:Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic#TE *-iþō. More at -th.

Middle Dutch -ede was shortened to -de in late Middle Dutch, and the suffix was devoiced to -te according to the 't kofschip rule. This voiceless variety was then taken to be the suffix proper and the voiced variety gradually fell out of use.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Etymology

Attested since the 11th century, from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#TECategory:French terms derived from Old French#TE -te, from LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Latin#TECategory:French terms derived from Latin#TE -ita, the feminine of the past participle ending -itus.

Suffix

-te f (noun-forming suffix, plural -tes)Category:French lemmas#TECategory:French suffixes#TECategory:French noun-forming suffixes#TECategory:French countable suffixes#TECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#TECategory:French feminine suffixes#TECategory:Pages with entries#TECategory:Pages with 16 entries#TE

1. (not productive) forms result nouns from -dre and a few other third-group verbs

   ‎vendre (“sell”) + ‎-te → ‎vente (“sale”)

   ‎perdre (“lose”) + ‎-te → ‎perte (“loss”)

   ‎attendre (“wait, expect”) + ‎-te → ‎attente (“expectation”)

   ‎fuir (“flee, (of liquids) leak”) + ‎-te → ‎fuite (“flight (act of fleeing), leak”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tə/Category:German 1-syllable words#TECategory:German terms with IPA pronunciation#TE

Etymology 1

From Middle High GermanCategory:German terms inherited from Middle High German#TECategory:German terms derived from Middle High German#TE -te, -ete, from a merger of several Old High GermanCategory:German terms inherited from Old High German#TECategory:German terms derived from Old High German#TE conjugations.

Etymology 2

From Middle Low GermanCategory:German terms derived from Middle Low German#TE and Middle DutchCategory:German terms derived from Middle Dutch#TE -te, from Proto-GermanicCategory:German terms derived from Proto-Germanic#TE *-iþō, whence also inherited but equally rare German -de.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɛ]Category:Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation#TE

Suffix

-teCategory:Hungarian lemmas#TECategory:Hungarian suffixes#TECategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#TECategory:Pages with entries#TECategory:Pages with 16 entries#TE

2. 1. (past-tense suffix) Forms the third-person singular indicative past definite form of verbs.

      ‎keres (“to search”) + ‎-te → ‎kereste (“he/she (has/had) searched”)

   2. (verbal-participle suffix) Forms the verbal participle of verbs, always following the agent noun.

      ‎nevel (“to bring up, to raise”) + ‎-te → ‎[az anyja] nevelte [gyermek] (“[the child] raised by [his/her mother]”, literally “his/her-mother-raised child”)

4. (noun-forming suffix) Forms nouns from certain verbs (cf. -és), incorporating the third-person singular possessive suffix (-e), which can be replaced by other personal possessive suffixes.

   ‎érkezik (“to arrive”) + ‎-te → ‎érkezte (“his/her/its arrival”)

See also

• Category:Hungarian verbal participles
• Category:Hungarian verb forms
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

Further reading

• Károly, Sándor. Az istenadta-féle szerkezetek személyragos tagjának szófaji jellegéről (“On the part of speech of the personal-suffixed elements of istenadta [‘God-given’]-like structures”). In: Nyelvtudományi Közlemények (“Linguistic Publications”), vol. 59 (1957), pp. 130–150.
• Simonyi, Zsigmond. Isten-adta (“God-given”). In: Magyar Nyelvőr (“Hungarian Language Guardian”), vol. XXXVI (1907), pp. 16–35 in the offprint (issue 5, May 15 in the original, pp. 193–205, 264–271).

Suffix

-teCategory:Irish lemmas#TECategory:Irish suffixes#TECategory:Irish inflectional suffixes#TECategory:Irish entries with incorrect language header#TECategory:Pages with entries#TECategory:Pages with 16 entries#TE

1. slender form of -ta (plural suffix)
2. slender form of -ta (past participle suffix)

Romanization

-teCategory:Japanese non-lemma forms#TECategory:Japanese romanizations#TECategory:Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes#TECategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#TECategory:Pages with entries#TECategory:Pages with 16 entries#TE

1. Rōmaji transcription of て

Suffix

-teCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#TECategory:Latin suffix forms#TECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#TECategory:Pages with entries#TECategory:Pages with 16 entries#TE

1. masculine vocative singular of -tus

Etymology 1

From Old FrenchCategory:Middle English terms borrowed from Old French#TECategory:Middle English terms derived from Old French#TE -te, -tet, from LatinCategory:Middle English terms derived from Latin#TE -tās, -tātem; compare -ite.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Etymology 4

Etymology 5

Etymology 6

From Old EnglishCategory:Middle English terms inherited from Old English#TECategory:Middle English terms derived from Old English#TE -te, the first‐ and third‐person singular past tense ending of certain class 1 weak verbs (typically those with stems ending in a voiceless consonant). It also frequently arises from the devoicing of the past tense ending -de (syncopated from -ede, typically following sonorant consonants).

Suffix

-teCategory:Mizo lemmas#TECategory:Mizo suffixes#TECategory:Mizo entries with incorrect language header#TECategory:Pages with entries#TECategory:Pages with 16 entries#TE

1. Pluralizes nouns.

   ‎naupang (“child”) + ‎-te → ‎naupangte (“children”)

Suffix

-teCategory:Old English lemmas#TECategory:Old English suffixes#TECategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#TECategory:Pages with entries#TECategory:Pages with 16 entries#TE

1. Alternative form of -de used to form the first and third person singular preterite indicative of certain class I weak verbs

   ‎reċċan (“to explain, argue”) + ‎-te → ‎rehte (“I/he/she/it explained, argued”)

Etymology

From Old FrisianCategory:Saterland Frisian terms inherited from Old Frisian#TECategory:Saterland Frisian terms derived from Old Frisian#TE -te, -ithe, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Saterland Frisian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#TECategory:Saterland Frisian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#TE *-iþō. More at -th.

Suffix

-te fCategory:Saterland Frisian lemmas#TECategory:Saterland Frisian suffixes#TECategory:Saterland Frisian entries with incorrect language header#TECategory:Saterland Frisian feminine suffixes#TECategory:Pages with entries#TECategory:Pages with 16 entries#TE

1. Forms abstract nouns from verbs, adjectives, or other nouns; -th

Alternative forms

• -da, -de, -ta

Etymology

From Old IrishCategory:Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish#TECategory:Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish#TE -de.

Suffix

-teCategory:Scottish Gaelic lemmas#TECategory:Scottish Gaelic suffixes#TECategory:Scottish Gaelic entries with incorrect language header#TECategory:Pages with entries#TECategory:Pages with 16 entries#TE

1. Used to form adjectives from nouns, in the sense of having the object represented by the noun.

   'S crìochnaichte an sgeul. ― The story is finished.Category:Scottish Gaelic terms with usage examples#TE

   ‎beum (“stress”) + ‎-te → ‎beumte (“stressed”)

   ‎blas (“taste”) + ‎-te → ‎blasta (“tasty”)

   ‎drabas (“filthiness of speech, smut”) + ‎-te → ‎drabasda (“obscene, ribald, smutty, dirty, indelicate”)

Alternative forms

• -de

Suffix

-teCategory:Swedish lemmas#TECategory:Swedish suffixes#TECategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#TECategory:Pages with entries#TECategory:Pages with 16 entries#TE

1. alternative form of -de; suffix to create preterite tense of verbs if the stem ends in an unvoiced consonant (this form of the suffix is only applicable to verbs which end in -er in the present tense)

Anagrams

• -et

Suffix

-teCategory:Turkish non-lemma forms#TECategory:Turkish suffix forms#TECategory:Turkish entries with incorrect language header#TECategory:Pages with entries#TECategory:Pages with 16 entries#TE

1. alternative form of -da (locative suffix) (after a front vowel followed by an unvoiced consonant)